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BOOK PRICES (Dec 21 2003 23:19 GMT) - Sean Hackbarth links a story about his employer Barnes & Noble's Collector's Library, which he says is an attempt on the part of B&N 's... |
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- Anti-RIAA RIAA's heavy handed legal tactics have earned them the emnity of almost everybody on the Net. Some take this all the way; actually working hard for the major record labels' destruction, like Downhill Battle. The latest campaign is called What a crappy present, discouraging parents from giving CDs to kids for X-mas. |
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- Anti-RIAA RIAA's heavy handed legal tactics have earned them the emnity of almost everybody on the Net. Some take this all the way; actually working hard for the major record labels' destruction, like Downhill Battle. The latest campaign is called What a crappy present, discouraging parents from giving CDs to kids for X-mas. |
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- trust me: a visual gag is funny no matter what language you speak. unless, of course, you're blind. in that case, visual gags carry no comedic value regardless of any language barrier. just for clarification. |
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- Like most bloggers, I notice with amusement the search phrases that bring people here from Google and the vast array... |
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- Tune in to 97.9 CHSR FM (in Fredericton) each weekday at 12noon for local, regional, national and international news updates from from the Subjective ... |
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- Tune in to 97.9 CHSR FM (in Fredericton) each weekday at 12noon for local, regional, national and international news updates from from the Subjective ... |
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- I used to subscribe to Angelfire's Plus service, which equated... |
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- I used to subscribe to Angelfire's Plus service, which equated... |
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- TV Reviews: With a body count to beat "The Sopranos" and enough post mortem deduction to impress the staff of "CSI," the History Channel cashes in on viewer's fascination of all things morbid with a fairly sensational special that isn't above showing sloshing buckets of blood. This is trivia geek heaven with tantalizing gory details thrown in for fun. |
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Dreamkeeper (Dec 21 2003 23:18 GMT) - TV Reviews: While perhaps a dicey commercial proposition from the get-go, relegating this handsome project to a barren ratings wasteland is perplexing. However hokey and predictable it is, "Dreamkeeper" is also a lyrical, visually splendid and lavishly produced two-parter in keeping with Robert Halmi Sr.'s filmography. |
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- (US) Senior guard Willie Shaw was arrested on marijuana possession charges last month and kicked off the team. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Senior guard Willie Shaw was arrested on marijuana possession charges last month and kicked off the team. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- A year ends in the little world of the Perl 5 porters, and perl itself turns older. Hopefully this doesn't mean that the development is stalled. Read below what happened this week among the porters. |
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- A 147 steps process. Hilarious! |
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- Argosy Magazine got a nice write-up in the Birmingham News. Charlie Stross and I just turned in a novella for the next ish of Argosy, a sequel to Jury Service, called "Appeals Court." Argosy is publishing both stories together in a perfect-bound package, as a fix-up novel called "Rapture of the Nerds."... ... |
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- I wrote a Python script that downloads a web page, then examines all linked pages to try to find their RSS feeds. (Of course, it uses Mark Pilgrim's RSS finder to do the actual finding.) This is good if you have an HTML-format blogroll and you want to know the RSS feeds for all the linked blogs. Sorta like what Dave Winer did with the weblog neighborhood tool, except that it looks for links in the HTML rather than in XML dumps from aggregator subscription lists, and consequently it finds feeds for things people link to rather than things they read. To run, you need Python, Mark's rssfinder. |
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- While briefly back from the malls/factory outlets/rapacious retailers (How 'bout them sales?), I chanced upon this site, a tribute (I think) to kittens, or Photoshop, or creativity, or something. Link snagged from Alicublog.... |
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- Music giveaways are understood to foster customer loyalty. What's more, they provide consumers with powerful incentives to use the related products, executives say. By Brian Garrity (Billboard via MyAppleMenu) |
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- WalMart's download service would probably seem bearable if iTunes for Windows didn't exist. But unfortunately for WalMart, it does. (Bill Palmer via MyAppleMenu) |
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- Shops are struggling to cope with demand for a hi-tech personal stereo which has become the must-have gadget of the year. (Ananova via MyAppleMenu) |
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- By Dan Kadison (New York Post via MyAppleMenu) |
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- Living without Microsoft isn't as hard as you might think. (Star-Ledger via MyAppleMenu) |
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- When companies try to reduce their tech-support costs in these ways -- a good thing if it lets them lower their prices -- they also reduce the chance of learning anything from their users. By Rob Pegoraro (Washington Post via MyAppleMenu) |
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- By Karlin Lillington (The Guardian via MyAppleMenu) |
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- My day has been deranged by the discovery, which I made at about 4 pm, that Simon Schama's televised History of Britain has been shown and is still being shown continuously on UK History (one of the free digital channels) throughout the day, from 7 am until 1 am tomorrow morning. I've been dipping into it ever since I found out about this, having only caught bits of it when it was on one of... |
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- The best thing about getting to live with someone you love is that pathetic warm glow they can give you. The worst is when you are the target of a hissy fit (has that phrase vanished, was it just an... |
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- Courier Mail Dec 21 2003 5:32PM ET... |
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- dBusinessNews.com Dec 21 2003 5:34PM ET... |
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- news.com.au Dec 21 2003 5:37PM ET... |
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- The Chinese government has arrested yet another web writer for publishing pro-democracy articles. Separately, a dissident sentenced last month for similar crimes has been refused an appeal. Kong Youping, a 48-year-old factory worker in Anshan city in north-eastern Liaoning province, was taken away on December 13, the group said. Beijing's high court had also declined to allow dissident He Depu to lodge an appeal against a November 6 ruling, which sentenced him to eight years in... |
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- Oh, wow... talk about bad timing! Bear in the Big Blue House Live is coming to Baltimore in January 2004, and we can get three decent seats (Row J) for $110. We might still get lucky with good seats after... |
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- Karlin Lillington reviews Radio UserLand. [Scripting News] |
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